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Form Equals Function for Ancient Sea Lizards and Modern Whales

In the ocean there once lived a creature built for predatory prowess. It had teeth...

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What the Big Picture Can Teach Us About Tiny Ocean Creatures

A 1,000-pound metal instrument—about the size of a two-seat Smart car—drops off...

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Oyster Shell

Oysters filter about 50 gallons of water a day. ...

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How to Survive an Oil Spill: Oyster Edition

Oysters are powerhouses of water filtration. In a single day, one oyster can filter...

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Meals of the Mighty Mosasaur

Between 100 and 65 million years ago, at the time when dinosaurs reigned on land,...

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If You Build An Ocean, Sea Monsters Will Come

Building a productive ocean is complicated. The process is long (on the order of...

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Mysteries of the Mesopelagic

The open ocean - everything except the coast and bottom - is not the same at...

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What the Megalodon Left Behind

The largest shark ever to exist on this planet, Carcharocles megalodon, could grow...

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Oyster Disease

Along the East Coast of the United States, two diseases can cause significant...

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Hurricane Storm Surge

Storm surge is the most deadly part of a hurricane or tropical storm. Winds can...

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Mapping Out What’s Next for the Marshall Islands

For residents of the Marshall Islands, a system of over a thousand islands found on...

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The Ocean We Love

As we celebrate Earth Day, we can’t overlook the largest and wettest part of our...